Search found 43 matches
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:51 am
- Forum: Radio and Spoken Word
- Topic: Andy Marriott's Television Show
- Replies: 114
- Views: 9699
Re: Andy Marriott's Television Show
I loved “Torchy the battery boy’ at the time of it’s original tx.
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:11 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Avengers Hendry/Rollason/Blackman/Stevens
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2797
Re: Avengers Hendry/Rollason/Blackman/Stevens
Pity that the article is completely spoiled by unnecessarily bringing up his personal politics. It’s not the place for it.
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:57 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: "Inspector Montalbano"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 317
Re: "Inspector Montalbano"
If you enjoy 'Monty' as we call him, I would think you would also enjoy 'The Bridge' subtitled series currently available on the BBC iPlayer. Very high standard of production and acting.
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 11:15 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Frank Windsor (1927-2020)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 861
Re: Frank Windsor (1927-2020)
I will always associate him with ‘Miracle Grow’. Every time I use it I cannot help but think of his advert.
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:39 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Two untraceable tv plays
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1479
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:10 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: "The Burke Special"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3567
Re: "The Burke Special"
Executive producer Michael Blakstad. I believe he’s still around and lives in East Meon in Hampshire. I’m sure if you googled you would find a way to contact him quite easily if you felt it worthwhile?
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:25 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Thoughts on Van Der Valk
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8817
Re: Thoughts on Van Der Valk
Strange that on Talking Pictures the ad breaks are in completely different places- wonder why? (Also noted that in episode 1 of series 2 the second of the 3 actresses to play Mrs VdV turns up in a different role.) Because at the time of the original transmission this prog was only permitted by the ...
- Mon May 25, 2020 8:15 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Sapphire and Steel - ITV strike 1979
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3193
Re: Sapphire and Steel - ITV strike 1979
...Each company had their own format, there was no standard layout imposed on the companies by the ITA/IBA... There's an example ATV one here . That’s an interesting document and intrigues me somewhat more for what it doesn’t show. It doesn’t give any detailed information about the timing and posit...
- Sat May 23, 2020 8:13 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Thoughts on Van Der Valk
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8817
Re: Thoughts on Van Der Valk
Happened to catch one of these on TPTV on the telly last night, I did not see any of this series originally as I was a student at the time with other things to do than watch telly! I really enjoyed everything about it, the quality of the acting from all the main characters, the mixture of VT and 16m...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 2:40 pm
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: BBC facilities
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1002
Re: BBC facilities
My wife travelled down from Scotland to take up one of these posts, albeit a few years later. You probably all see her work everyday now if you did but know.
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:25 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Roger Marshall (1934-2020)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1440
Re: Roger Marshall (1934-2020)
Public Eye being a classic textbook example of a thoughtful script, masterfully executed. Always a treat to watch his ‘stuff’.
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:21 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: A Family at War - The War Office Regrets - strike action
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2155
Re: A Family at War - The War Office Regrets - strike action
The agreement between the ACTT and the ITV companies at the time was quite clear in this respect. If an ITV company was unable to transmit a programme to any other ITV company due to industrial action then the receiving company(ies) had to individually fill the space with locally sourced material.
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:09 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The nodding correspondents
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1878
Re: The nodding correspondents
Are there any broadcasters out there who can comment on this bizarre observation I've made ? OK - the scene in the newsroom is set with our presenter leading up to a report from a correspondent anywhere in the world. You can see said correspondent on a monitor in the background. Standard head and s...
- Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:38 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: More popular outside their region of production
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8278
Re: More popular outside their region of production
Although I don't think Russell Harty Plus was ever *fully* networked, I believe some other ITV regions apart from LWT did take the programme at various stages of its existence. I certainly don't remember seeing it in the HTV West region (where I lived until 1978), although that might simply have be...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:49 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Last-minute replacements
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8433
Re: Last-minute replacements
The answer to you first question is surely self evident - self promotion. I can’t quite see where we’re going with this. I used to be closely involved with the C4 presentation suite at LWT and I’m telling you that we did very occasional local promotions. ‘Meanwhile over on ITV’ sort of things etc. ...
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:25 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Last-minute replacements
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8433
Re: Last-minute replacements
Yes, there was local continuity - certainly in London at the weekends. But the opportunity to do it was obviously determined by the C4 presentation facility at each individual ITV company, and crucially, the slots made available in the C4 schedule to do it. It was very limited, and those companies ...
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:17 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Last-minute replacements
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8433
Re: Last-minute replacements
Yes, there was local continuity - certainly in London at the weekends. But the opportunity to do it was obviously determined by the C4 presentation facility at each individual ITV company, and crucially, the slots made available in the C4 schedule to do it. It was very limited, and those companies ...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:57 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Last-minute replacements
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8433
Re: Last-minute replacements
The programme was being produced by an independent production company using the technical facilities at LWT. I think it was in Studio 3. Ah, thanks for that - as I suspected. Some ITV companies had simple facilities to just insert local commercials and others had somewhat grander facilities to prod...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:59 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Last-minute replacements
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8433
Re: Last-minute replacements
I was suggesting that the ITV franchise holders were responsible for playout of all IBA controlled channels in their area, although LWT could easily be the London playout to the network feed (assuming I understand how it worked) and the ITV franchise holders then had duty offices to monitor the pla...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:53 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Last-minute replacements
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8433
Re: Last-minute replacements
The programme was being produced by an independent production company using the technical facilities at LWT. I think it was in Studio 3. So, the facilities were being manned by LWT staff. Whether LWT’s television production facility had ‘morphed’ from ‘LWT Production Facilities’ to ‘The London Studi...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:41 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: A question for the TV experts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1103
Re: A question for the TV experts
Point of order Mr Chairman, post 1993 the programme companies became licence holders in their areas, they were no longer referred to as programme contractors.
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:18 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Last-minute replacements
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8433
Re: Last-minute replacements
The After Dark incident was quite an extraordinary story which I don't think I'd appreciated properly until now: the show was taken off air for 20 minutes because of a hoax call, and subsequently came back. This letter from the programme's producer was published in Broadcast magazine on 27 November...
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:11 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Thames TV
- Replies: 69
- Views: 11494
Re: Thames TV
I’m sure Christopher Robbie would be up for it.
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:26 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: 1989 Thames/ Yorkshire/ LWT repeat seasons
- Replies: 107
- Views: 16119
Re: 1989 Thames/ Yorkshire/ LWT repeat seasons
Just to side track a little, the 25th celebrations at LWT weren’t just restricted to on-air events. There were also cast reunions at Kent House. I remember of a lot of the remaining cast of ‘On the Buses’ being warmly welcomed to one such event in the hospitality suite.
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:37 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Freddie Jones (1927–2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1617
Re: Freddie Jones (1927–2019)
I thought his performance in Granada’s “The Caesars” was certainly at least equal to Derek Jacobi’s In “I Claudius“. Both great of course.
- Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:17 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: 1989 Thames/ Yorkshire/ LWT repeat seasons
- Replies: 107
- Views: 16119
Re: 1989 Thames/ Yorkshire/ LWT repeat seasons
There was a Philip Mackie season too, including a complete repeat of The Organization , the play The Naked Civil Servant and single editions from Maupassant and Saki . The channel also repeated The Human Jungle in its entirety as well as the half-hour Danger Man s. I recorded this C4 transmission o...
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:46 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: 7Up question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2106
Re: 7Up question
I'd assume any necessary restoration would have been done for the DVD releases? Despite being a child of 1957 myself, I had not previously seen a single episode of the Up series until this latest. I found 63 Up absolutely fascinating, I'm tempted at investing £17 on the DVDs of all the previous ser...
- Sat May 25, 2019 11:08 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shows that changed stations
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3920
Re: Shows that changed stations
Not exactly changed sides. The ITA London Franchise holder changed from A-R to Thames, but as Thames was a shotgun marriage with A-R the junior partner, it is a tenuous change if at all. Associated Newspapers had long sold its interest in A-R before the franchise changes in 1968, by then the compan...
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:39 pm
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: EMI 2001 - a model
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1730
Re: EMI 2001 - a model
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- Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:38 pm
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: EMI 2001 - a model
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1730
Re: EMI 2001 - a model
Would you ‘do’ one with LWT on the side? Or maybe blank so that I could add one?